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Sounding of the Whale
Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2013
496 kr
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Over the course of the twentieth century, our understanding of and relationship to whales underwent astonishing changes. With The Sounding of the Whale, D. Graham Burnett tells the fascinating story of the transformation of cetaceans from grotesque monsters, useful only as wallowing kegs of fat and …
Till the Light Leaps
Essays on Playing Attention
Inbunden, 2027
271 kr
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A ranging, erudite, and intimate examination of the nature of knowledge, by a thinker and creator who defies categorization.Attention is in short supply and high demand. But when we bring our minds and time and senses to something—an idea, an object, another person—we tap into a human capacity for …
Scenes of Attention
Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
Av D. Graham Burnett, Justin E. H. Smith
Inbunden, 2023
1288 kr
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Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness—to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great anxiety over attention? What is at stake in …
Scenes of Attention
Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
Av D. Graham Burnett, Justin E. H. Smith
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness—to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great anxiety over attention? What is at stake in …
Trial by Jury
E-bok, 2002
110 kr
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When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a …
Trying Leviathan
The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
Häftad, 2010
297 kr
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In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of …
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For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
Av A Community of Inquiry, D. Graham Burnett m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
204 kr
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An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and cultureThe university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic …
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest
Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 95, Part 3)
Häftad, 2005
504 kr
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Trying Leviathan
The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
E-bok, 2010
441 kr
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In Moby-Dick , Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville''s antihero here takes sides in one …
Keywords;
For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
Av D. Graham Burnett, Jessica Terekhov m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
271 kr
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An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic …
Trial by Jury
Häftad, 2003
102 kr
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The People of New York v. Monte Virginia Milcray had all the elements of being a sensational and disturbing trial: a body with multiple stab wounds found in a tiny New York apartment; intimations of cross-dressing; male prostitution, and mistaken identity. But for Graham Burnett - a young historian …
